It is thought that a simple test for the prediction of asthma in children, which will soon be presented before the British Thoracic Society, will be a huge step towards the prevention of asthma symptoms and asthma fatalities among children. Asthma is currently affecting a huge, 1.1 million children in the UK. There is no known […]
Cystitis is an extremely common condition but the related, yet, chronic bladder condition, interstitial cystitis (IC), can be very debilitating for some individuals. It can be experienced as mild discomfort to unbearable pain in the bladder and sometimes in the pelvic region too. Since it is often mistaken for a common bladder infection, antibiotics are […]
It is estimated that Female Sexual Dysfunction will affect about 50% of women at some point in their life. This is identical to the number of men estimated to experience problems with erectile dysfunction. Yet whilst Viagra is a household name, there are no approved treatments for women. This is mainly because female sexual dysfunction […]
The latest in erectile dysfunction treatments introduces Spedra from pharmaceutical company Vivus, and with this clever new treatment, Vivus looks set to out perform their competitors. For many men, it takes a mere fifteen minutes to get working and this is the main distinction between Spedra and other treatments like it. Spedra is a PDE-5 […]
Genital warts are still the second most common sexually transmitted infection the United Kingdom. Quite often Gonorrhoea gets referenced as the second most common after Chlamydia but that is only correct if you are looking at bacterial infections. Genital warts are caused by the Human Papillomavirus, which is transferred by skin to skin contact. If […]
Although the H7N9 virus has not spread from human-to-human yet (other than in the one isolated and specific incident reported here earlier), researchers are still trying to establish whether it is likely to happen. The most upfront way to do this is by creating a mutant form of the virus, and then put it to […]
Clinicians are often too aware of the fact that patients’ illnesses rarely come alone. Instead co-morbidities, developed through ageing, life-style or genetic vulnerability, come to play a large role in that persons’ treatment. Patients who present with HIV co-morbid with HSV are often aware of how damaging this combination can be. Yet research rarely focuses […]
In the past we have reported on the measures taken to manage the outbreak and develop treatments for the H7N9 virus, which originated in China. One aspect that was particularly reassuring was the fact that the virus appeared to be transmitted from poultry to humans, but that there had been no transmissions between humans. However, […]
The threat of a new bird-flu virus that appears to have originated in China, commonly known as H7N9, has been subject to several areas of research. However, to date the results have been varied. Recently, Novavax released a press report about a new vaccine that they have been developing. Here we consider what is currently […]